New Delhi: Former Supreme Court (SC) judge Justice Syed Abdul Nazeer, who was part of landmark judgments on demonetisation, Ayodhya title dispute and triple talaq, was on Sunday appointed as the governor of Andhra Pradesh.
Justice Nazeer hails from Beluvai village in coastal Karnataka – a state that is set for a big election Warning later this year. placement also comes in the way Conflict between the judiciary and the executive, and Blame “Centre’s interference in Judiciary”.
Justice Nazeer will replace Biswa Bhushan Harichandan in Andhra, who has been appointed as the governor of Chhattisgarh.
Born in 1958, Justice Nazeer started as a lawyer in 1983, and became a judge of the Karnataka High Court, where he served for nearly 14 years.
In 2017, Justice Nazeer was elevated to the Supreme Court – the third judge to be directly elevated to the Supreme Court without a high court chief justice – where he served for nearly five years before retiring earlier this year. Was. He is also known for his interest in theatre.
during his Duration In the Supreme Court, he was part of more than 400 benches and authored around 100 judgments.
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notable decisions
Justice Nazeer was the only Muslim judge on a five-judge constitution bench which in November 2019 delivered a unanimous verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case, in which the ownership of the disputed 2.77-acre land was given to the temple trust.
After the verdict, the Center gave Justice Nazir Z category Safety armor In view of the threats from various quarters.
In 2017, Justice Nazeer was part of a five-judge bench that looked into the constitutionality of triple talaq or instant divorce among Muslims. The practice was declared “illegal” and “unconstitutional” by a 3:2 majority, with Justice Nazeer in the minority and also the then Chief Justice of India JS Khehar. The dissenting judges said that the court cannot interfere in personal law.
In the same year, Justice Nazeer was part of a nine-judge constitution bench which unanimously declared the right to privacy a fundamental right.
Recently, Justice Nazeer was part of the majority judgment maintain Centre’s 2016 demonetisation plan. The judges said that the RBI Act should be read with a “pragmatic” mindset and that the central government and the Reserve Bank of India had consulted extensively before demonetising Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denomination notes.
Justice Nazeer did in 2021 addressed The 16th National Council meeting of the All India Advocates Council, an organization affiliated to the right-wing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, was held in Hyderabad. He then called the Indian legal system colonial and “not suitable for the Indian population”.
Not the first SC judge to be nominated as Governor
Justice Nazeer is not the first SC judge to be appointed as the governor of the state, but the third in seven decades of independence – the other two being Justice M. Fathima Beevi and former Chief Justice P. Sathasivam.
Justice Beevi, who was also the first woman Justice of India in the Supreme Court Appointed Governor of Tamil Nadu in 1997. However, due to the controversy over his invitation to (now late AIADMK chief) J Jayalalithaa to form the government, he had to resign in 2001 before the completion of his term, and arrests (Late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister) M Karunanidhi and two Union Ministers in Chennai.
Justice Sathasivam was named the Governor of Kerala in 2014. The appointment sparked controversy mainly because it had just come month After Justice Sathasivam retired as the Chief Justice of India.
Controversy
The appointment of judges to positions of power has been a controversial subject.
In 2012, BJP leader Arun Jaitley had announced that giving jobs to judges after retirement would help the government to influence the judiciary. “The desire for a post-retirement job influences pre-retirement decisions. It is a threat to the independence of the judiciary and once it influences pre-retirement decisions, it adversely affects the functioning of the judiciary, He had said.
In recent years, AppointmentFormer Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi as a Rajya Sabha MP and former SC judge Justice Arun Kumar Mishra as chairman of the National Human Rights Commission have raised eyebrows.
(Editing by Nida Fatima Siddiqui)
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